6 months ago
Base Salary
$176k - $227k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain scalable, reliable backend or full-stack systems and APIs powering Plaid’s products.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to define and deliver customer-focused features.
- Write clean, efficient, well-tested code and participate in code reviews.
- Build automated tests, monitor system performance, and troubleshoot production issues.
- Contribute to technical design discussions, share best practices, and improve engineering processes.
Requirements
- 1–4 years of software engineering experience post-internship.
- Demonstrated ability to ship reliable systems or features at scale.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to develop practical, maintainable solutions.
- High ownership, collaborative working style, and willingness to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Growth-oriented mindset with a commitment to feedback and continuous improvement.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits.
- Equal opportunity employer with reasonable accommodations available during recruiting.
- Additional equity and/or commission may be available depending on the position offered; compensation varies by scope, experience, skills, and location.
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About Plaid
Plaid builds APIs and SDKs that let developers and financial institutions connect consumer bank and investment accounts, verify ownership, retrieve transactions, assess income/liabilities, fight fraud, and move money (e.g., ACH/transfer). It sells usage-based access to products like Link, Auth, Transactions, Identity, Income, Liabilities, and Payments. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, Plaid’s network spans 12,000+ financial institutions across the US, Canada, the UK, and Europe, with customers including Venmo, SoFi, and Betterment.